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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:14 am

Pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sat Sep 18, 2021 2:34 pm

chuck wrote:Pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor[/img]

Close.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby chuck » Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:15 pm

Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/bfly2/eastern_black_swallowtail.htm

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:33 pm

chuck wrote:Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)

No. :D
It is a dark morph of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.
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As I pointe out in the first photo, "Here in Columbia they already look beat-up in September."
This specimen has part of the wings between the tails ripped out.

Here is one that is not so beat-up.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sun Sep 19, 2021 4:16 pm

Whatzit?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:57 pm

Looks like a subject for Georgie O'Keeffe.
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:45 pm

I agree with your Georgia O’Keeffe comment, Rufus.

Whatzit clue 2:
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:01 am

Now it's white.........blue to white shift flower......hmmm........
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:33 am

Not a color shifter. Kentucky has 25.862 million acres of these blue flowers and one with white flowers (based on my limited observations.) I found the one while one while bicycling around our property yesterday.

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:24 pm

Blue ones look a lot like what I mowed off last week around my cabin, and that's my limited knowledge of what they might be be - mowed!
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:45 pm

Clue 4: The blue and white flowers are classified as same family, same genus but different species.

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Clue 6
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:04 pm

ANSWER TO WHITE AND BLUE FLOWER WHATZIT


THE WHITE FLOWER
Lobelia spicata, commonly called the pale spiked lobelia, is a flowering plant species within the family Campanulaceae (commonly known as Bellflowers.)
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Lobelia
Species: L. spicata


THE BLUE FLOWER
Lobelia siphilitica, the great blue lobelia, great lobelia, or blue cardinal flower, is a flowering plant species within the family Campanulaceae, Commonly known as Bellflowers.)
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Lobelia
Species: L. siphilitica
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby webenda » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:25 am

Whatzit?
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Re: Whatzit?

Postby sleepmac » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:56 am

Possibly a tiny turntable for reversing rail speeders?

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Re: Whatzit?

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:43 am

sleepmac wrote:Possibly a tiny turntable for reversing rail speeders?


Seems linked to the switch as well. Maybe for reversing small engines to run around the trains? I see gearing but nothing obvious for actuating that gearing to rotate the section.
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